Note LV — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 3)
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] Severall made offers to the Parliament to survey it (when the Parliament ordered to have it surveyed) for 4000 li., 5000 li., 6000 li.; but Sir William (then Dr.) went lower then them all and gott it. Sir Jonas More contemnd it as dangerous, loving to sleepe in a whole skin: he was afrayd of the Tories.—From Edmund Wyld, esq. Vide pag.[633] 2.—MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 13v.